A journal researching the life and times of John "Mad Jack" Fuller (1757-1834).

Saturday, February 07, 2015

Woodcocks

Hereford Journal January 15, 1817 - page 4

Woodcocks.- John Fuller, Esq., of Rosehill, Devonshire, and his game-keeper, have this season already shot and brought to bag fifty of these delicious birds, whose visit to the southern parts of the kingdom, it is remarkable, have this year been earlier and greater in number than usual.
Notes

John Fuller of Rosehill, Sussex and Devonshire Place, London.

The Scolopax rusticola or Eurasian Woodcock is one of seven extant species of woodcock.